I’m developing a screw for the lamps to fix the lamp-hood. But with sketch-up I’m getting big troubles with the wiring/bolt effect. I can draw it good, but on the moment I load the Object in Repetier I get failures on the positions of wire-edges. I also draw the spiral and the holder in each other when rotating to 3D to avoid very small gaps by the vectors of grades. But this also did’t work.
Is the K8200 capable to make wires on/in objects and if so, what are the minimum measures of these?
Or must I use an other 3D program then Sketch up 2013?
I’m very curious about this.
I’ve seen it is possible to make screw-thread but not how its possible with Sketch-up. Someone here with more experience?
I used to work with Solid works and everything worked automaticly so Sketch-up is back to a kind of autocad. But I dont understand the not compatibles with repetier/k8200 (yet). Is it a too sharp edge of the thread that creates an error or to small surface? Or the mix with the combined solid structures?
Or is sketch-up only usable for non-spiral solid structures with repetier? Im curious.
Sometimes the sketchup generated .stl files contain errors and the the file is not “manifold” use the tool on this website: cloud.netfabb.com/
to check for errors and repair them.
I’ve found what the error is about. I tested more drawing and from simple to complexer. Suddely I saw the difference when the error occured. The extra lines for measuring goed within the .obj file. And repetier see these as tracks for the printer. So after cleaning all the extra lines, repetier accepted the *.obj. But with screw thread this gets very annoying. Because sketch-up insert much extra lines which damages the solid structure if you remove them.
I will look if your suggestion will work. Otherwise its just not possible to make screw-thread with sketch-up for repetier. I’m gonna test this also with Solid works.